OVERVIEW:  The challenge of sharing our complex experience of living in a transforming relational continuum also known as “The Tao that cannot be told” (Lao Tzu), has led to the development of “LANGUAGE”, more appropriately termed “LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING” to avoid the confusion that comes with the assumption that LANGUAGE is directly reporting on our sense-experience reality… IT IS NOT!  Language or “LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING” comes with the issue noted by Korzybski that ‘the word is not the thing’ which is further complicated since as MODERN PHYSICS informs us, we share inclusion in a WAVE-FIELD wherein material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including WAVE-FIELD.   This ambiguous matter/field relation gives rise to the need for QUANTUM LOGIC in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING.  QUANTUM LOGIC is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of THE INCLUDING MEDIUM which takes into account the interconnected and interdependent (relational) nature of material forms as CONDENSATIONS of the WAVE-FIELD.   The cultures of EAST and WEST can be distinguished by the EAST’s use of LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that is QUANTUM LOGIC or FLOW-BASED (relational) as contrasts with the WEST’s use of LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that is BINARY LOGIC  or BEING-based.  This essay serves a ROSETTA STONE role in reviewing how the WEST’s adoption of a BINARY LOGIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme is the source of FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM that is NOT PRESENT in the QUANTUM LOGIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme of the“EAST” (indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, as well as QUANTUM PHYSICS).

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FORWARD:  WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE comes with the potential for psychological confusion because it incorporatates a TOO SIMPLE, LOGICALLY INCOMPLETE “BEING-BASED linguistic conceptualizing scheme that Nietzsche has termed ‘the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  This ‘DOUBLE ERROR’ gives us the impression of MALE-ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “LOCAL AUTHORING” without acknowledging the real-world conjugate of FEMALE-ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING.  Only in an imaginary abstract flat space of infinite extent would the one-sided “male-asserting/actualizing” pseudo-dynamics of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION be possible.  In the sense-experience affirmed, all-including, continually transforming wave-field, the “male asserting/actualizing” of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION is only found in conjugate relation with the “female-accommodating/enabling’ dynamics of SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION, co-constituting together the all-including wave-field dynamic of TRANSFORMATION.

While philosophers such as Mircea Eliade (Mephistopheles et l’Androgyne) and systems theorists such as Kenneth Boulding have pointed to the confusion in WESTERN CULTURE associated with how our linguistic conceptualizing handles “THE TWO AND THE ONE” (the English title of the aforementioned book by Eliade).  The standard BEING-based languages of Western culture are simple BINARY LOGIC based while the languages of indigenous aboriginals, Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta, in accord with MODERN PHYSICS, employ a less simple but more comprehensive QUANTUM LOGIC FLOW-based linguistic conceptualizing scheme.  The BEING based linguistic conceptualizing is dependent on an abstract ABSOLUTE EMPTY and INFINITE SPACE as an ‘operating theatre’ for dynamics that are imagined in the simple BINARY LOGIC terms of the movements and interactions of independent material bodies as if within an empty infinite space.  The FLOW based linguistic conceptualizing is dependent on RELATIONS as describe a NON-BEING-DEPENDENT transforming wave-field comprised of the QUANTUM LOGIC combination of wave-field and material forms that are condensations of the wave-field where the field and the condensations of the field manifest in a BOTH/AND LOGIC of the  INCLUDING MEDIUM (QUANTUM LOGIC) relation.

The QUANTUM LOGIC understanding requires a linguistic conceptualizing scheme that captures the BOTH/AND relation between “BOTH” material forms (condensations of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD) … “AND” the energy charged PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD.   This QUANTUM LOGIC has an ANDROGYNOUS structure in that its “BOTH/AND’ capability acknowledges the ANDROGYNOUS (conjugate) combination of the FEMALE ACCOMODATING/ENABLING dynamic and the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING dynamic.  This means that GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION “DO NOT EXIST ON THEIR OWN” but are only found in conjugate relation with their”female-accommodating/enabling” “counterpart” dynamics of SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION, the combination, rather than a mechanical sum-of-the-parts, being found in the sense-experience affirmed all-including wave-field dynamic of TRANSFORMATION.

WE KNOW THAT we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS employ a linguistic conceptualizing scheme that FLATLY “DROPS OUT” the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and ‘goes with’ ONLY the MALE-ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate, hence we speak in terms of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION as if these dynamics WERE REAL when they are ABSTRACTIONS that are MISSING their FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugates of SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION which together with GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION co-constitute TRANSFORMATION.

Our sense-experience affirms that we are immersed in an all-including WAVE-FIELD based TRANSFORMATION, while our WESTERN CULTURE employs the tactic of using the simplified BINARY LOGIC based MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING pseudo-realities of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, which are only half the story.  But, as Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS of ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS, our propositions involving GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION can be “TRUE” without being “REAL” due to their INCOMPLETENESS wherein, as mentioned, they DROP OUT (or fail to acknowledge) the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugates of SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION, and it is only when we use LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING in a manner that would have us understand these MALE and FEMALE conjugates in their ANDROGYNOUS UNION of TRANSFORMATION that our LANGUAGE-INFORMED UNDERSTANDING has a chance of ‘matching up with’ our SENSE-EXPERIENCE UNDERSTANDING.

As it is, in WESTERN CULTURE, we have engineered ECONOMIES based ONE-SIDEDLY on THE UNREAL, ABSTRACTIONS OF GROWTH/DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, the TRUTH of which is convincing, without alerting us to the Goedel’s Theorem INCOMPLETENESS of such ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS, which, TRUE though they may be, are nevertheless INCOMPLETE and thus fail in their linguistic conceptualizing, to inform us on REALITY, that REALITY being an all-including TRANSFORMATION which incorporates the conjugates of SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION together with GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION.

Our WESTERN CULTURE USE OF BINARY LOGIC and the simplified abstract “LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS” that such simple logic supports, distinguishes us from CULTURES USING QUANTUM LOGIC such as INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES, TAOISTS/BUDDHISTS and ADVAITA VENDANT ADHERENTS and the small minority of QUANTUM PHYSICISTS who have ‘switched teams’ (from the BINARY LOGIC, abstract being-based pseudo-reality-grounded team to the QUANTUM LOGIC sense-experience-grounded team). While some fractions of the aforementioned QUANTUM LOGIC user-groups have ‘converted’ to the BINARY LOGIC based understandings that are built into WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing, there continue to be holdouts; i.e. those who have managed to sustain their FLOW-BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING practice.

This lengthy FORWARD is ‘made lengthy’ beause it is written in ENGLISH and ENGLISH is one of the “Common Average European” languages, in linguist Benjamin Whorf’s categorization, that suffers from BINARY LOGIC based DUMBING DOWN by way of the DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate.  That is, languages such as ENGLISH give a foundational role to BINARY LOGIC by way of simple LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’, which Goedel’s Theorem “WARNS US” is “INCOMPLETE”, and we can easily see what is INCOMPLETE about it; i.e. it DOES NOT MENTION THE CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS and thus OBSCURES in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS, the LESS SIMPLE reality of TRANSFORMATION which comes to us with the conjugate combination of “BOTH” MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING as with GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION … “AND” … FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING” as with SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION.

As Whorf points out, we would have no problem with our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING if we were using a QUANTUM LOGIC capable language like HOPI, but our use of ENGLISH with its BINARY LOGIC, BEING-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING “IS” a problem.  As Zen philosopher Alan Watts suggested, we users of English could avoid the BINARY LOGIC based DUMBING DOWN (from QUANTUM LOGIC to BINARY LOGIC) by avoiding the use of NOUNS signifying BEING and instead using only VERBS as support understanding in RELATIONAL (QUANTUM LOGIC) terms.

THIS HASN’T HAPPENED AND IS UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN SOON because we have secured with PRIDE the foundational status of NAMES/NOUNS with, as Nietzsche points out, the associated DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR that supports the abstraction of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments which is solidly entrenched in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING and is the basis for WESTERN CULTURE’S BEING based PURIFICATIONIST systems of REWARDS for GOOD BEINGS and PUNISHMENTS for BAD BEINGS.  This BINARY LOGIC EITHER/OR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme is in radical contrast to the ‘mitakuye oyasin’ (we are all related) QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM understanding of indigenous aboriginal cultures.  The QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC linguistic conceptualizing approach is reaffirmed by MODERN PHYSICS, wherein our INCLUSION in the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD is LINGUISTICALLY ACKNOWLEDGED as in flow-based linguistic conceptualizations such as ‘THERE IS TOWNING AND HUMANING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” where material forms are understood as CONDENSATIONS of the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.

The DYSFUNCTION that is intensifying in our WESTERN CULTURE social dynamic is shaped by linguistic conceptualizing that is DUMBED DOWN from needed less-simple QUANTUM LOGIC, WAVE-FIELD competent linguistic conceptualizing, to simple BINARY LOGIC MECHANICS (material-objects-banging-about-in-empty-space linguistic conceptualizing).  This simplistic BINARY LOGIC conceptualizing DROPS OUT acknowledgement of the conjugate SHRINKING, DEGENERATION and CONSUMPTION that work together with GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION in the TRANSFORMING of the RELATIONAL CONTINUUM of our sense-experience.

In spite of the WARNINGS of Nietzsche, Bohm, Schroedinger and others as to how our WESTERN CULTURE over-simplistic LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING is the source of rising FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM, we continue to move forward down a path of intensifying BINARY LOGIC fuelled DYSFUNCTION, punctuated with MASS SHOOTINGS and MILITARY CONFLICTS that, instead of having a QUANTUM LOGIC orientation to resolving RELATIONAL IMBALANCE, have a BINARY LOGIC orientation to BEING-BASED PURIFICATIONISM.

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The SHORTFALL in BINARY LOGIC based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING which we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS PERSIST IN USING, is CLEARLY IDENTIFIED by Nietzsche, in his following two comments that ‘set the stage’ for the need to UPGRADE to QUANTUM LOGIC BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING which is FLOW-BASED (NONLOCAL, IMPLICIT) and is NOT DEPENDENT on (LOCAL, EXPLICIT) MATERIAL BEINGS and, DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR based “LOCAL AUTHORING”.  In Nietzsche’s following two comments, he rejects the notion of BOTH “BEING” and “BEING-based LOCAL AUTHORING”.

 

In its origin language belongs in the age of the most rudimentary form of psychology. We enter a realm of crude fetishism when we summon before consciousness the basic presuppositions of the metaphysics of language, in plain talk, the presuppositions of reason. Everywhere it sees a doer and doing; it believes in will as the cause; it believes in the ego, in the ego as being, in the ego as substance, and it projects this faith in the ego-substance upon all things — only thereby does it first create the concept of “thing.” Everywhere “being” is projected by thought, pushed underneath, as the cause; the concept of being follows, and is a derivative of, the concept of ego. In the beginning there is that great calamity of an error that the will is something which is effective, that will is a faculty. Today we know that it is only a word.” – Nietzsche, ‘Twilight of the Idols’

 

Our judgement has us conclude that every change must have an author”;–but this conclusion is already mythology: it separates that which effects from the effecting. If I say “lightning flashes,” I have posited the flash once as an activity and a second time as a subject, and thus added to the event a being that is not one with the event but is rather fixed, “is” and does not “become.”–To regard an event as an “effecting,” and this as being, that is the double error, or interpretation, of which we are guilty.” – Nietzsche, ‘Will to Power’, 531

 

Note that Nietzsche is CRITIQUING both the use of NAMING to impute BEING (e.g. “lightning”) as the SUPPORT STUB for CONTRIVING BEING-based AUTHORING; …  Everywhere “being” is projected by thought, pushed underneath, as the cause …

Nietzsche’s exposing of this major SHORTFALL in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING (an engineered-in dependency on BINARY LOGIC based BEING and its GRAMMAR based cohort “LOCAL AUTHORING”). which conflicts with the WAVE-FIELD view of reality wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED AS CONDENSATIONS WITHIN AN ALL-INCLUIDING FLUX.  Nietzsche agrees with Heraclitus’ that “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” and holds a QUANTUM LOGIC-like view of the world as ‘ENERGY-CHARGED-PLENUM’;  “And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end, a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself “ —Nietzsche, “The Will to Power”

Thus, Nietzsche makes an important critique of the WESTERN CULTURE “BEING-BASED” linguistic conceptualizing scheme.  Today, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS continue to give BEING a foundational role in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme  in spite of its REJECTION BY Heraclitus, and as is also evident, by Nietzsche and MODERN PHYSICS.

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Here’s HOW WESTERN CULTURE is CULTIVATING DEEPENING DYSFUNCTION

 

By ‘Deepening Dysfunction’, I am referring to unfolding events such as HAMAS’ INSANE MASSACRE of Israelis and Netanyahu’s “INSANE” RESPONSE.

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